Gte Fine

September 30, 1985

TAMPA — GTE Directories Corp. violated state antitrust laws and must pay $5 million in damages to a small advertising company, a federal jury decided. Ad- Vantage Telephone Directory Consultants had filed suit against GTE Directories, a sister company of General Telephone Co. of Florida, when GTE directly billed the ad company's yellow pages clients. Clearwater-based Ad- Vantage said it was deprived of its commission on advertisements it had sold, and ''collapsed'' because of the resulting difficulties.